Exclusive Interview
‘Love Is Blind’s Jax & Stew Share Surprising Update on Their Relationship Today
What To Know
- Jax Guelli ended her engagement to Stew Stewart after their first in-person meeting during Season 11 of Love Is Blind.
- During an interview with Swooon, Jax and Stew revealed unseen moments between their split and on-camera reunion.
- The duo shared a surprising update about their relationship status today.
Sometimes, you meet a man sight unseen from across a pod wall, unceremoniously break up with him moments after he proposes to you, and then you coincidentally move across the street from him back in Boston.
While Love Is Blind Season 11 star Jacqueline “Jax” Guelli called off her relationship with Scott “Stew” Stewart before they could head to Mexico as an engaged couple, they revealed to Swooon that fate had other plans for their relationship. Revealing what happened in the unseen moments between their departure from the experiment and their first on-screen meetup back in Boston, as well as their relationship status today, Jax and Stew got candid about their Love Is Blind connection.
Looking back at their first in-person meeting, right after Stew proposed to Jax in the pods, Jax wanted to remind viewers, “He was a stranger at that point,” before admitting, “I wasn’t brave enough to take that next step, and I wasn’t sure enough at that time.” Still, she has realized since then, “We probably would have had so much fun [in Mexico], and a relationship could have bloomed from that.
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While viewers got to see Jax and Stew reunite in Boston, both stars admitted the scene probably felt a little “choppy” and “anticlimactic” for viewers because they had already talked multiple times before their on-camera chat.
“We had met up a couple times,” Stew revealed. They had met up on a night out with their friends, shared phone calls, and texted back and forth. According to Stew, Jax had picked the sweater he was wearing for their restaurant meet-up. He explained, “I had worn that one of the times we had met up with some of her friends, and she’s like, ‘Oh my God, I love this sweater. You should wear it for the reunion or for when we go to dinner.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I like it, too. Why not?’ It was a perfect weather day for the cardigan.”
However, at that point, Jax still wasn’t ready to “entertain” a romantic relationship with Stew. She confessed, “I was still kind of readjusting to real life and settling back in, and then, unfortunately, I think we missed that time slot to get in the groove of giving it a real shot. So we never really did, and yeah, we just went back to our lives.”
Stew said they went back to “separate lives,” there was “always overlap.” He shared, “We’d always see each other. Boston’s not a big city. She ended up moving apartments and moving closer to my neighborhood. When you live virtually across the street from each other, you cross paths quite a bit. We started seeing each other a lot more frequently.”
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He continued, “Obviously, the whole Love Is Blind cast is super close, and there’s always group events that someone will plan.” The full group went to a Celtics game last year, which inspired Stew to ask Jax out for drinks, and now, doing press for the show, they’ve traveled together. “In a funny way, just kind of fate and circumstances have brought us back together. I think it’s proof positive that you can form real chemistry in the pods.”
So, are Jax and Stew giving their relationship a shot? As Jax put it, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen. We’ve talked about it, and we’re still like in a weird place of figuring it out. I think we’re waiting for all of this madness to settle a little bit because we’re still really in the thick of it. But both of us aren’t writing off anything. We’re both, I think, excited for this to move on to the next chapter, whether that be as friends or as more than that.”
Love Is Blind, Season 11, Streaming Now, Netflix
